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now, fiona is here with us today. she is earning her masters at gw school of engineering in applied sciences. originally from china, she been in the united states for five years, studying operations research in the systems engineering department. if you talk to her you'll see, she is pretty smart. she'd like to stay here. she wants to invest her talents in america and maybe even start her own company, but she has seen too many of her friend with advanced degrees have to go home despite sharing some of her same dreams and aspirations of wanting to become part of this country. now, last year the house passed a bipartisan stems job act which helped fix this problem. we will act against in this congress and hope the senate chooses to join us this time. i look forward to fee -- fiona real a's herring dreams and our country reaping the reward of her hard work and talent, whether it's college or the cost of daycare, making life work for more families, means reducing the economic instewart plaguing so many working moms and da
now, fiona is here with us today. she is earning her masters at gw school of engineering in applied sciences. originally from china, she been in the united states for five years, studying operations research in the systems engineering department. if you talk to her you'll see, she is pretty smart. she'd like to stay here. she wants to invest her talents in america and maybe even start her own company, but she has seen too many of her friend with advanced degrees have to go home despite sharing...
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and that's what we used. but we added a little bit something to the folks that we when we put real pictures of people on. we put badges around their necks. why would we put badges around the necks? they shoot their own. absolutely. and so we switch those back and forth. some will have badges and some will not. the threat is the weapon not the face. not the face. team took a lot. if you don't there was screaming going on when it happened. it took a lot. we knew because of the study we were on to something. we continued on with that. we also continue on with that actual conversation how to implicit bias work in law enforcement. and one of the things we found out, training might not increase the speed, we talk about a little bit of -- i want to touch on the stereo types and the mechanism and something incongruent is for you to have a white male and black male together a white to have the gun and the black male not. the mind is confused. they associate black faces with crime. and so when i get confused. i have to
and that's what we used. but we added a little bit something to the folks that we when we put real pictures of people on. we put badges around their necks. why would we put badges around the necks? they shoot their own. absolutely. and so we switch those back and forth. some will have badges and some will not. the threat is the weapon not the face. not the face. team took a lot. if you don't there was screaming going on when it happened. it took a lot. we knew because of the study we were on to...
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it's hard for us to understand there was nobody like us. whatever they did it was important. >> let's take a quick snapshot of the modern republican. a basic fact about what america liked like. the census maker was thomas jefferson. here are some of the facts they gathered about the new united states. the 13 former colonies had a population of under 4 million. and 577 of those were blacks and 19% and 9% were free. the per-capita-income was $437. the years of war had reduced the per-capita-income. if you translated to 2013 dollars, $11, 500. the largest cities were new york, philadelphia, and boston. what can we learn about them? >> first of all, point out that two of the thirteen states were not yet members of the union. the fact that north carolina and rhode island held back when the rest of the union adopted the constitution. america was overwhelmingly a rural, rustic farm-based society. it ended at the appalachian mountains. there were only in 1800 there were three roads that crossed. the united states was a nation -- it was in fact thre
it's hard for us to understand there was nobody like us. whatever they did it was important. >> let's take a quick snapshot of the modern republican. a basic fact about what america liked like. the census maker was thomas jefferson. here are some of the facts they gathered about the new united states. the 13 former colonies had a population of under 4 million. and 577 of those were blacks and 19% and 9% were free. the per-capita-income was $437. the years of war had reduced the...
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use inspired basic research gave us the transsister. it gave us a lot of new discover about materials and quantum physics. today use inspired basic research is giving us applications of understanding to medical treatment. now fifty years ago, most r&d was conducted in big companies in the u.s. and it followed a scwcial linear process. the you did a lot of basic research. got a lot of ideas you have to let the market figure out which one of these would be important. you then move to applied research and did development finding and marketed the product. today sphri focuses pry particularly on the development and in most certainly does not use the linear process. because technology moves too fast, it can't afford to do industry can't afford to do much basic research where it's not clear that company will receive the payoff, and finally the results of with a we used to call applied research and development feed so rapidly in to the basic research itself that you just can't ignore it and follow the simple lineal path one of the two european
use inspired basic research gave us the transsister. it gave us a lot of new discover about materials and quantum physics. today use inspired basic research is giving us applications of understanding to medical treatment. now fifty years ago, most r&d was conducted in big companies in the u.s. and it followed a scwcial linear process. the you did a lot of basic research. got a lot of ideas you have to let the market figure out which one of these would be important. you then move to applied...
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but it does not weaken us. it does not have to weaken us. in this room of our chosen family as well as those who are mall the way to 5 miles away and could not be with us we have known for a long time that unfortunately there are those to dedicate themselves to trying to terrace apart from a separate us, undermine the social progress and justice we have one. it is certainly something we have seen here in the south, something we still see. as a movement to we can learn from our brothers and sisters in the south about sticking together as a social justice family, about perseverance, and about resistance. the politics of division and greed, the vestiges of slavery that still shape opinion and policies and still contribute to a modern systemic disenfranchisement that is yet to be overcome, this is our struggle to. [applause] and those who seek to divide us need to take a look at this room . more than 3,000 out, proud, determined, not intimidated, not going anywhere, reaffirming our chosen family, our bonds of love together, nothing, nothing can
but it does not weaken us. it does not have to weaken us. in this room of our chosen family as well as those who are mall the way to 5 miles away and could not be with us we have known for a long time that unfortunately there are those to dedicate themselves to trying to terrace apart from a separate us, undermine the social progress and justice we have one. it is certainly something we have seen here in the south, something we still see. as a movement to we can learn from our brothers and...
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it works against us every day. to preserve our mission to provide secure, reliable, and affordable universal delivery service and to do so without burdening the american taxpayer, the postal service needs urgent reform to the business model. mr. chairman, let me conclude by thanks members of the committee for recognizing the difficult challenge we face and for the willingness to take them on this year. the postal service is a tremendous organization with tremendous employees and needs your help. the american people deserve a financially healthy and vital post sal service that stands ready to achieve that goal. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir, for the testimony and leadership from an early age. mr. darrell, you're on. great to see you. welcome. >> good morning, mr. chairman, ranking member, coburn, members of the committee, it's a pleasure to be here to discuss the postal service's financial condition. the financial condition has been on the high risk list for years. >> on and on, hasn't it? >> on and off and
it works against us every day. to preserve our mission to provide secure, reliable, and affordable universal delivery service and to do so without burdening the american taxpayer, the postal service needs urgent reform to the business model. mr. chairman, let me conclude by thanks members of the committee for recognizing the difficult challenge we face and for the willingness to take them on this year. the postal service is a tremendous organization with tremendous employees and needs your...
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to improve it is a task of us all. tonight, thanks to the grit and determination of the american people, there is much progress to report. after a decade of grinding war, of brave men and women in uniform are coming home. [applause] >> after years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over 6 million new jobs. we buy more american cars than we have in five years. and less foreign oil than we have in 20. [applause] >> our housing market is healing. our stock market is rebounding, and consumers and home owners enjoy stronger protections an ever before. [applause] >> so, together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis. and we can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger. [applause] >> but we gather here knowing there are millions of americans who's hard work and dedication have not yet been rewarded. our economy is adding jobs, but too many people still can't find fulltime employment. corporate profits have skyrocketed, to all-time highs, but for more than a decade, wages and inc
to improve it is a task of us all. tonight, thanks to the grit and determination of the american people, there is much progress to report. after a decade of grinding war, of brave men and women in uniform are coming home. [applause] >> after years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over 6 million new jobs. we buy more american cars than we have in five years. and less foreign oil than we have in 20. [applause] >> our housing market is healing. our stock market is...
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movies that impact us and unite us. they are not just well-known actors and directors, sidney poitier, tom hanks, and others, they are the collaboration of thousands of people. those collaborations generate more than social and cultural dividends, but economic ones as well. movies create jobs and many of them over the united states and elsewhere. 99% of the movie production workforce are men and women of who i speak today, they install the light in this room, wire the microphone that i'm speaking from and prepare our lunch for us today. we are all guilty of viewing things from the wrong end of the lens. for every talented and recognizable face, there are literally tens of thousands of working people off screen who helped to create the magic in the movie theater. every workday, more than 2.1 million of our fellow citizens go to work at a job that directly or indirectly depends on the movie and television business. these jobs involve producing marketing manufacturing and distributing movies and tv shows the film industry
movies that impact us and unite us. they are not just well-known actors and directors, sidney poitier, tom hanks, and others, they are the collaboration of thousands of people. those collaborations generate more than social and cultural dividends, but economic ones as well. movies create jobs and many of them over the united states and elsewhere. 99% of the movie production workforce are men and women of who i speak today, they install the light in this room, wire the microphone that i'm...
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they are with us this evening. three other preeminent ot -- opt veterans will begin our panel presentations. henry goldberg who succeeded justice scalia as opt general counsel is one of the deans of american committee cases law and seems to have been present as advocate or consiglio harriet every possible development in communications law during the past 45 years. dale hatfield who could actually talk trans-bonders and switches and spectrum with the boss went on to a distinguished career in academic government. he was active director of opt successor office in the commerce department and chief of engineering and technology at the sec and during his consulting days working with tom on a variety of business ventures. bruce owen, opt's chief economist and ardent economic conscious was the key architect of the bell system's breakup and telecommunications deregulation followed a highly successful career as a consulting economist he returned to his alma mater at stanford where he is now doyle centennial professor of publ
they are with us this evening. three other preeminent ot -- opt veterans will begin our panel presentations. henry goldberg who succeeded justice scalia as opt general counsel is one of the deans of american committee cases law and seems to have been present as advocate or consiglio harriet every possible development in communications law during the past 45 years. dale hatfield who could actually talk trans-bonders and switches and spectrum with the boss went on to a distinguished career in...
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can you give us a timetable? you already announced some actions that you're taking, which you're putting in place now so that even if we can avoid sequestration, and in the next few days or a week from now or two weeks from now, some things are being taken even before the end of february and before we know whether we can avoid sequestration. can you tell us, first of all, whether or not the actions would be reversible if in fact we avoid the sequestration in, say, week from now or two weeks from now, and do you echo the president's call for a balanced approach to avoid sequestration to include both spending cuts and additional revenues? >> mr. chairman, first of all, let me indicate -- i think general dempsey can add to this -- the reason we're having to do this and take actions now is because we're operating at a spend rate right now that envisions that we would have gotten an fy13 appropriations bill. unfortunately we have no fy13 appropriations bill. we've got a cr. we have been operating, at least in the firs
can you give us a timetable? you already announced some actions that you're taking, which you're putting in place now so that even if we can avoid sequestration, and in the next few days or a week from now or two weeks from now, some things are being taken even before the end of february and before we know whether we can avoid sequestration. can you tell us, first of all, whether or not the actions would be reversible if in fact we avoid the sequestration in, say, week from now or two weeks...
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and he reminded us of why we love new york and inspired us to fight for it. he understood how tough our problems were, because he had the confidence and courage believe that the problems could be cured, he not only arrested our decline and showed the unruly city was governorble, he was not only restoring the city's fiscal health and made us once again the nation's economic engine. he was not only building aid fordable housing where fires had raged and made new york city once again a national leader in equal rights and arts and culture. he did something even more important. he rear toed -- restored the arc of our city's history. a decade before ed became mayor. we lost our ways. and thanks to him, we became great again. and let me tell you, that was not inevitable. ed made it so. it is fair to say that the city we know today would not exist without him. everything that david dickens and ruddy giuliani and i has been built on the foundation that ed lay. it's strong and unshakable as ed's faith in new york and god. i've been doing my biblical research. i think i
and he reminded us of why we love new york and inspired us to fight for it. he understood how tough our problems were, because he had the confidence and courage believe that the problems could be cured, he not only arrested our decline and showed the unruly city was governorble, he was not only restoring the city's fiscal health and made us once again the nation's economic engine. he was not only building aid fordable housing where fires had raged and made new york city once again a national...
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we have assessed be said about us, believed about us that is contrary to what we done. thirdly, we in our effort to support democracy still are held accountable for supporting the government there before democracy. you do with governments of all kinds. we deal with china. hardly anybody believes china respects human rights and is not a democracy, but we don't get linked because we do business in china, but somehow that costs a negativity towards us, which again is unsound. so there are reasons for all the points you made that go more to the heart of american foreign policy and american values, but we can do a better job in abusing and refuting what people are led to believe that is contrary to who we are. >> allan wendt >> allan wendt, formerly with the state department. madame secretary, you've outlined a very ambitious and program to the department of state. could you tell us about the budgetary recess that will be required to carry out the agenda? >> i'm very glad he asked the question. you know, we've had some success in the very first years of my tenure in making t
we have assessed be said about us, believed about us that is contrary to what we done. thirdly, we in our effort to support democracy still are held accountable for supporting the government there before democracy. you do with governments of all kinds. we deal with china. hardly anybody believes china respects human rights and is not a democracy, but we don't get linked because we do business in china, but somehow that costs a negativity towards us, which again is unsound. so there are reasons...
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it is using technology. sometimes used well. can be a useful tool, but i think more often than not it is used as an invasion. >> thank you. the united states has not won a war since 1945. this combat looks an awful lot like vietnam. there is no difference between the republicans and the democrats except ron paul. i am wondering, are we ever going to see the united states completely pull out of the mideast? it is leaving some people to think that we might be there for well or minerals or even the heroin trade for that matter. and i am really concerned about this. >> well, you raise a good point. world war two is actually, in the annals of military history, sense and going way back, world war ii is kind of an anomaly. there really have not been a lot of wars in history that lead to the total surrender of the enemy . most wars, and particularly the kind that we are getting involved in now, you know, widely -- rightly or wrongly and with some kind of negotiation or some kind of division of power or some new power arrangement between
it is using technology. sometimes used well. can be a useful tool, but i think more often than not it is used as an invasion. >> thank you. the united states has not won a war since 1945. this combat looks an awful lot like vietnam. there is no difference between the republicans and the democrats except ron paul. i am wondering, are we ever going to see the united states completely pull out of the mideast? it is leaving some people to think that we might be there for well or minerals or...
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for us we have no choice. we have to pay those bills, so it's going to cost us significantly, which would then create another readiness problem because we moved a lot of the things we should have done in 13 to 14 and one have enough money to make up for what they couldn't do in 13 to continue stability or >> thank you, sir. we are looking at 15 billion. that's 4.5 billion due to continuing revolution. that's only operations account. so for operations to go with the money as an insurance solution is general odierno mention they bring that down to what we believe is feasible and responsible. we are slowing the burn rate as you say. there's a temporal aspect as time goes on and you say we've got to do this now or not, you've got to fish or cut day. sherman's deployment got press because we said we need to present an option to our bosses and say we deploy it or we don't. if we deploy it, we're concerned because the money we use will not be training. so we have to let down the road is general odierno said. those gu
for us we have no choice. we have to pay those bills, so it's going to cost us significantly, which would then create another readiness problem because we moved a lot of the things we should have done in 13 to 14 and one have enough money to make up for what they couldn't do in 13 to continue stability or >> thank you, sir. we are looking at 15 billion. that's 4.5 billion due to continuing revolution. that's only operations account. so for operations to go with the money as an insurance...
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we are pleased to have them with us today and we thank all of you for joining us to mr. bellinger, we will start with you. each witness has written statements that will be made part of the record in their entirety. i ask each witness summarized his or her testimony of five minutes or less. to help you stay within the time, this time at my dinner table. the light switches programmed to yellow, you have one minute to conclude that when the light turns red signals the witnesses five minutes have expired. mr. bellinger, welcome. >> thanks very much, mr. chairman and members of the committee for coming for this important hearing today. i doubt this year but many legal issues as the subject of states are to administer this advertiser for the national security council and white house in the first term of the bush administration and the slick lopressor for the state department in the second term. i was in the white house situation room on either but the band spent all eight years of my time dealing with many of the same issues. but the bush and obama administrations have conclud
we are pleased to have them with us today and we thank all of you for joining us to mr. bellinger, we will start with you. each witness has written statements that will be made part of the record in their entirety. i ask each witness summarized his or her testimony of five minutes or less. to help you stay within the time, this time at my dinner table. the light switches programmed to yellow, you have one minute to conclude that when the light turns red signals the witnesses five minutes have...
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a lot of us still don't have the information we want. i would say that i'm willing and they are willing, i checked with the people that not gotten all of the information they want. they said let's have the vote. are they caving in? they are doing all they can to be conciliatory. i think it's just, you know, we're doing everything we can. we're not filibustering. we don't want to string it out. i want to repeat one last time. this vote is the vote on chuck hagel. it's not on procedure or anything. on chuck hagel. i retain the balance of my time. >> senator from michigan. >> what time does the majority have? >> 17 minutes remain for the majority. and three minutes for the minority. >>. >> five minutes senate from illinois. >> senator from illinois. >> madam president, this is rare. twice in the history of the senate have we had a filibuster involving a nominee for a cabinet position. twice. especially disappointing about this as it was just a few weeks ago we came together on a bipartisan basis and said we're not going this anymore. we're
a lot of us still don't have the information we want. i would say that i'm willing and they are willing, i checked with the people that not gotten all of the information they want. they said let's have the vote. are they caving in? they are doing all they can to be conciliatory. i think it's just, you know, we're doing everything we can. we're not filibustering. we don't want to string it out. i want to repeat one last time. this vote is the vote on chuck hagel. it's not on procedure or...